Different views also need to be handled (eg internal company view that's different from external view) so it is preferred to try and keep using the locallly DHCP obtaind DNS server as forwarder. But this might require the user to select a manual override depending on how the local organisation has setup their internal and external DNS(SEC) zones.

Different views also need to be handled (eg internal company view that's different from external view) so it is preferred to try and keep using the locallly DHCP obtaind DNS server as forwarder. But this might require the user to select a manual override depending on how the local organisation has setup their internal and external DNS(SEC) zones.

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A special "hot spot signon" option is available to temporarilly allow spoofed DNS to allow redirection to a captive portal. Once full access is gained, the user can select to enable full DNSSEC again, and a new probe of the network capabilities will be performed.

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unbound also offers a special feature of running DNS over TLS to a set of "trusted" DNS servers that support DNS over TLS. Although using DNS like this is extremely slow, it does provide a viable alternative in those networks that keep breaking/redirecting DNS traffic, even after captive portal signon. For Fedora to use this, some infrastructure would need to be setup to serve the Fedora community. Paul Wouters and NLnetlabs run such servers, but more would be needed if the entire Fedora community could be using this fallback. Note that security of that infrastructure is important, but that DNSSEC traffic cannot be tampered with. There is also an aspect of privacy involved with sending Fedora users to third party servers. Until the Fedora community has agreed to access third party servers, example entries in /etc/unbound/unbound.conf will be left commented out.

Owner

Current status

Detailed Description

All major DNS servers in Fedora run with DNSSEC validation enabled by default since Fedora 11 so we have a lot of experience from server environment.

There is a complex environment with NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf that handles updating. This could be simplified if especially if we run our own resolver by staying staticly pointed to 127.0.0.1.

However, we MUST use DHCP obtained caching DNS servers to not explode the amount of traffic send to authorative servers by end nodes. So we need to be able (via NetworkManager) to signal a new updated forwarder to use for the local DNS server. Currently, only unbound supports this and DNSSEC properly. bind does not support this yet. unbound can use "unbound-control forwarder". This feature should really be done because otherwise every Fedora box will not use the global DNS caching infrastructure. Ideally, it will only become a full resolver without forwarder in the case that the forwarder does not support DNSSEC. If we were to move forward with DNSSEC on workstations, then we would have to install unbound as the default DNS server for Fedora. This should probably be discussed with releng.

This DNSSEC-aware environment needs only two keys, for the root zone and the ISC DLV register. Both domain administrators follow RFC 5011 so keys will be updated automatically. Paul: This is not true. I don't think either ISC not the Root has committed to using RFC 5011. However, the rollovers will be slow and announced far in advance, so we can anticipate and prepare for it. Fedora currently ships these keys with the unbound and bind packages. Note that for systems that are down a very long time, RFC-5011 might not work. There is talk of having some kind of zone where historical key data is presented to provide a secure upgrade path, but there are operation issues with that and Verisign/ICANN has not commited to this yet.

Different views also need to be handled (eg internal company view that's different from external view) so it is preferred to try and keep using the locallly DHCP obtaind DNS server as forwarder. But this might require the user to select a manual override depending on how the local organisation has setup their internal and external DNS(SEC) zones.

A special "hot spot signon" option is available to temporarilly allow spoofed DNS to allow redirection to a captive portal. Once full access is gained, the user can select to enable full DNSSEC again, and a new probe of the network capabilities will be performed.

unbound also offers a special feature of running DNS over TLS to a set of "trusted" DNS servers that support DNS over TLS. Although using DNS like this is extremely slow, it does provide a viable alternative in those networks that keep breaking/redirecting DNS traffic, even after captive portal signon. For Fedora to use this, some infrastructure would need to be setup to serve the Fedora community. Paul Wouters and NLnetlabs run such servers, but more would be needed if the entire Fedora community could be using this fallback. Note that security of that infrastructure is important, but that DNSSEC traffic cannot be tampered with. There is also an aspect of privacy involved with sending Fedora users to third party servers. Until the Fedora community has agreed to access third party servers, example entries in /etc/unbound/unbound.conf will be left commented out.

Benefit to Fedora

All DNS traffic will be secured by DNSSEC

Scope

by default, DNS server should use only servers whose are available via DHCP. This information can be easily obtained from NetworkManager.

two additional services will run on every machine - unbound (DNSSEC capable resolver) and dnssec-triggerd (helper which checks if DNSSEC works, informs unbound about resolv.conf changes and informs user if something goes wrong)

How To Test

install NetworkManager and dnssec-trigger

start unbound and dnssec-trigger services

check that DNS responses are validated (via dig utility)

User Experience

Although this change won't be visible to common users, users will be secured from various DNS spoofing and DNS cache-poisoning attacks.

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